This morning, I watched an EdTech Team Live video that focused on the recently released ISTE Standards for Educators. If you aren't familiar with the EdTech Team videos, I would highly recommend looking at their YouTube Channel. They have many good videos related to technology and learning. In the video that I watched earlier today, they mentioned that the new standards are the third iteration of ISTE Standards for Teachers/Educators. I thought it would be interesting to compare the three sets of standards by creating a word cloud of each set.
| ISTE National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
and Performance Indicators for Teachers (2000) |
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ISTE Standards Teachers (2008)
It's interesting to see the trends through the use of words in the standards. 'Technology' is the single most-used in the 2000 version, but now so in the other two. In 2008, you see words like 'model', 'engage', and 'global'. The most current version uses words like 'collaborate', 'design', and 'authentic'. Notice how the word 'teacher' shrinks while the word 'student' grows with each iteration. It would be interesting to give these to a group of teachers and see what they notice.
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Hey Blogging Buddy! Thanks for the YouTube resource! I didn't realize they had a channel. I like your idea of comparing the word used over time. Have you tried the add-on in Docs for Word Clouds yet? It's really cool!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great suggestion of using the Google Docs Work Cloud add on. That would have saved me so much time getting posting the images! Thanks for the idea.
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